Preparing For Job Interview

By: Jimmy Sweeney

The secret to preparing for a job interview is knowing
what it truly means to be prepared. With that goal
established in your mind, the preparation becomes
easier. For one thing you have a sense of what the
goal of your preparation should be. For another, you
have a clear sense of what aspects you need to focus
more intensely on should be. Lastly, you have an
accurate sense of when you can stop preparing because
you are ready to succeed in the interview. For the
purpose of creating a job interview preparation goal,
begin with the image of yourself interviewing for your
own current job and imagine the level of knowledge and
strategy that you would bring into that interview.

Preparing for a job interview with that image in mind
shows both the level of job-specific knowledge you
need to have, and the advantages of having that
knowledge. If you were interviewing for your own job,
you would be able to answer each question put to you
with the most convincing and effective answer
possible. Since you know what your job duties are, you
could talk about those to the interviewer and he or
she would gain confidence that you are capable of
coming in and doing that job for the company
immediately. Since you know what the corporate culture
values, you could emphasize those qualities about
yourself and make the interviewer believe that you
would fit into the company well. Most importantly, you
would know what results the company valued above all
others, and could speak about the times when you
accomplished those results.

More on Preparing for a Job Interview

Preparing for a job interview until you have an
employee’s level of knowledge requires more than
merely checking out the corporate website online. You
should learn as much as you can about the company
through published pieces, then supplement that
knowledge with as much as you can learn from people
who have first hand knowledge. Use your social network
to find the people who work in that field, that
industry and that company. Ask them what they know
about the company. In specific, you should know what
the daily responsibilities of your position are, what
results the company respects most, and what attributes
the company looks for in their hires.

The last step of preparing for a job interview is
formulating your answers to the questions you will
encounter. It’s a safe bet to think that the company
is going to ask you questions that bring out
information about those three important topics. Your
job as an interviewee is to answer the questions using
your life and job experience in a way that convinces
the interviewer that you have already performed the
daily duties, fit into that culture and achieved those
desired results already in your career. As you answer
each job interview question, be sure to bring out
those experiences to the interviewer, making each one
of them as relevant and similar to the requirements of
the job as you possibly can.

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